What's new in Notes/Domino 7.0.2

Innovation Pack (Windows only)
The new Innovation Pack included with the Notes Client contains several new features:

• A new blog template, allowing users to easily create blogs in Notes; see "Web log (blog) database template" in these release notes for additional information
• The ability to subscribe from a public calendar in iCalendar format; see "Importing and exporting calendars from iCalendar" in these release notes for additional information
• Support for RSS feed-enabling of Notes databases; see "RSS feed generator database template" in these release notes for additional information
• The ability to run Notes from a USB memory stick; see "Installing and running IBM Lotus Notes on a USB drive" in these release notes for additional information

• Vacation/Leave Requests - Employees can request leave time from their manager using the Notes calendar
• Time Reporting - Employees can report billable time to the SAP system using the Notes Calendar
• Contact Management - Employees can use contact information from the SAP HR systems in the same ways they can use their Notes personal name and address book and corporate directory
• Meeting Scheduling - SAP users can track the meetings they schedule using SAP CRM on the Notes calendar
• Report Generation - Employees can request a report from the SAP system using the Notes client
• Human Resources Self Service - Employees can copy their personal employee information from the SAP Human Resources (HR) system to a local self-service database, send updates to the SAP system, and create local reports of their approved leave and submitted time on projects, as recorded on the SAP system. Managers can additionally copy their employees' information and create reports of their employees' approved leave and submitted time. See "Using SAP Human Resources Self Service", in these release notes, for instructions on using this feature.
• Workflow Integration - Employees can display and process workflow items on the SAP system from Notes Mail.

Mail, Calendar, and Scheduling improvements
Performance improvements made to the Mail, Calendar, and Scheduling functions include:

• The ability to modify which fields display in the Ambiguous Names dialog box. This new feature allows customers the ability to add custom columns to the Ambiguous Names and No Match dialog boxes. This is useful for customers in large companies with a single domain to avoid using the 'Details' button to differentiate between duplicate entries. Prior to this release, the Ambiguous Names dialog showed only a fixed number of columns. Now, customers can add up to four custom columns by editing the $Users view.
• When you address a mail message, Notes can now look into the server address book first, instead of the user's personal address book. To use this feature, choose 'Server then Local' in the "Mail addressing" field shown below. Note that this field is only visible if your mail file location is set to "Local". IBM is investigating having this feature available for Server-based mail files in a future release.
  
  
• An optional new feature has been added to 7.0.2 to enforce quotas when creating a document in a mail file, or when working in a local replica. Prior to 7.0.2, if a quota was set on a Domino server replica, the quota was not enforced in a local replica. The new feature prevents users from creating mail or calendar entries in their mail file, either locally or on a server, and provides users with a warning message if they attempt to create a new mail message or calendar invitation. See "Enforcing quotas on new mail/calendar entries" in these release notes for additional information
• A new mail Action that allows public groups to be expanded; for example, if the sender wants to remove selected recipients from the group list
• A new mail Action that allows Recipient lists to be optionally displayed with only a single entry per line
• Calendar documents which are marked 'Private' now get populated in the busytime.nsf without calendar details, but still visible if a delegate can access the mailfile
• When archive logging is disabled, and a user selects Action -> Archive -> Open Log, a message informs the user that archive logging is unavailable

• A persistent IM cache to prevent excessive stResolve requests on client launch, reducing server load and improving performance; see "Persistent IM cache" in these release notes for additional information
• Adding timeouts and request removals to handle resolve requests that do not receive a reply from the Instant Messaging (Sametime) server.

Support for Macintosh client
DWA now supports the Macintosh via a Firefox browser (versions 1.0.x & 1.5.x). Please note that the DWA client running on Macintosh does not include either off-line capabilities (DOLS, local archive, off-line access), or integrated Sametime capabilities. Sametime presence and chat are provided by the Sametime Java connect client, outside of the context of the DWA client.

Also please note that DWA does not support the Macintosh Safari browser.

"Display icons . . ." preference
Users can set a preference to display icons in their mail views, indicating whether they were the only recipient, or whether their name is listed in the "To" field or the "cc" field. See "Display icons when your name is in the "To" or "cc" field" in these release notes.

Macintosh OS 10.4 supported
The Notes Client is now supported on Macintosh OS 10.4. In addition, the following features have been added in support of the Notes Client running on Macintosh OS 10.4:

• Macintosh API upgrade
• Replication of larger-sized Notes databases

SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 supported
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10, 32-bit and 64-bit, are supported platforms for the Domino server.

Support for additional DXL design elements
New elements for Shared Columns, Shared File Resources, and Shared Stylesheet Resources have been added.

Additional MIME APIs
Additional MIME APIs have been exposed in the C API SDK, to allow third-party developers to more easily develop applications which directly access and manipulate MIME data.

HTML API enhancement
The HTML API presently used for converting CD to MIME (in e-mail) is now available in the Notes SDK. The HTML API provides access to the Domino web server's "command processor", to convert Notes forms, views, and documents into HTML.

User-defined HTML tag attributes
User-defined attributes can now be added to the <HTML> tag generated by the web engine. When the field $$HTMLTagAttributes is present on a form, its contents are placed in the attribute list of the <HTML> tag. For more information, see "Additional HTML-related field attributes" in these release notes

Custom <!DOCTYPE> declaration
Users can now specify a custom <!DOCTYPE> declaration on a per form basis. When the field $$HTMLFrontMatter is present on a form, its contents will be placed in the generated HTML, ahead of the <html> tag, and the web server will not generate anything there automatically. For more information, see "Additional HTML-related field attributes" in these release notes

AddInternetCertificateToUser() enhancement
In previous releases of Domino, when the AddInternetCertificateToUser() process was called from the back-end, using the CA process without a keyring, the CA process returned an error. This error has been addressed, and the AddInternetCertificateToUser() process can now be called using the CA process without a keyring.

Lotus Enterprise Script Builder (ESB) migration to Domino
Domino 7.0.2 provides a way for Lotus ESB users to migrate their applications to Domino. ESB provided an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for developing LotusScript-based application programs that access databases, application systems, and legacy host systems; it also provided an execution environment to run the developed applications.

Allow for basic authentication of some URLs
Domino 7.0.2 allows certain URLs, for example those that generate RSS feeds, to use Basic Authentication, even if Domino Session Authentication is in effect.

Support for xACLs to secure Internet passwords
For passwords stored in the Domino Directory, administrators can set up xACLs to limit access to Internet passwords to the users themselves for accessing and changing their own passwords, and to administrators for allowing administrative changes to passwords. For more information, see "Using xACLs to secure Internet passwords" in the Documentation updates section of these release notes.

Support for reading TNEF objects (winmail.dat attachments)
Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange can be configured to send e-mail to other Outlook and Exchange users by encapsulating Microsoft-specific data in a Transport Neutral Encapsulated Format (TNEF) object. When so configured, Outlook sends a multipart/mixed MIME message, where Microsoft Rich Text Format (RTF) text is rendered as plain text in the first part of the multipart/mixed message. The original RTF data, however, is encapsulated in the TNEF object, along with any other objects from the original message: attachments, OLE objects, etc.

In previous releases, when Notes users received these messages, they could read the plain text rendition of the original RTF, but could not access any attachments which were sent in the original message.

Beginning with Domino 7.0.2, the MIME itemizer now recognizes TNEF objects, pulls out any attachments which are encapsulated in a TNEF object, and adds those attachments to the message before writing it to the Domino router's mail box.

For additional information, please see "Configuring the TNEF converter" in these release notes.

Recipient Journaling
In earlier Domino releases, for journaled messages, the SendTo, CC and BCC items were captured in the message, but not the actual recipients of the message. Since, for example, the SendTo/CC/BCC items may contain group names, and these groups may change over time, it is important for compliance purposes to be able to capture the expansion results at the time the message is being routed, so that information describing the actual recipients of the message is captured. Note that mail forwarding results in similar needs.

Starting with Domino 7.0.2, a new item has been added to the message being journaled that indicates the individual recipients of the message, including members of any groups that are expandable on the server doing the journaling. For groups that are to be expanded on other servers (for example, groups in other domains), the list includes those groups that are not expanded. The list also includes the result of any changed or added recipient addresses, such as those that result from mail forwarding, or by copying mail to another recipient via mail rules.

For additional information about this feature, see "Message journal now contains actual intended recipient names" in these release notes.

Smart Upgrade Run-As (SURunAs) utility
Smart Upgrade Run-As (SURunAs) is a utility that allows an administrator to wrap an install kit in a program that will allow that install kit to be installed on a user's machine, even if the user doesn't have local administrator privileges. This utility is designed to be run with Smart Upgrade, and works by creating an executable that wraps up the administrator's credentials and the Smart Upgrade kit into one executable, which "runs as" the administrator when it is launched by Smart Upgrade on an end user's machine.

This avoids the issue of needing to give users installation and registry modification privileges to upgrade. For additional information, see "Using the Smart Upgrade Run As feature" in these release notes.

Performance improvement with application profiling
By using a performance technique called application profiling, CPU utilization by Domino has been reduced. Profiling is done by generating a realistic workload, collecting profiling data for the program while the workload is running, and then re-translating the program using the collected data.

The data tells the translator which branches are most commonly taken in the code, and which procedures most often call other procedures. This allows the translator to re-order the procedures, and re-organize the code within procedures, so that the processor instruction cache is used more efficiently, and overall performance improves. This technique is now applied to the Domino for i5/OS product prior to distribution.